// Weston family – owners of Primark – retain top 10 spot in the Sunday Times Rich List 2022
// Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston have a combined wealth of £13.5bn
The billionaire family behind retail giant Primark, who recently sold department store Selfridges, have retained their dominance as one of the richest names in UK retail after coming in the top 10 of the Sunday Times Rich List.
Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston have a combined wealth of £13.5 billion and have come in at the eighth spot.
This means they have edged up two spots as the Westons were the 10th richest in the country last year, with a wealth of £11 billion.
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Meanwhile, Sir James Dyson – the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner – and his family sit in second place on the rich list, with a combined wealth of £23 billion.
Luxury group Kering, which owns Gucci and Balenciaga, boss François-Henri Pinault and his wife Salma Hayek, are 22nd in the list with a wealth of £7.125 billion, followed by Bestseller founder and Asos investor Anders Holch Povlsen at 23rd, with £6.5 billion, and The Very Group owners the Barclays at 25th with £6.025bn
Pentland Brands, and JD investor, Stephen Rubin, is 26th in the list, Home Bargains founder Tom Morris is 37th and Asda owners the Issa brothers sit at 39th, with their fortune growing £50 million to £4.75 billion over the past year.
Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley also saw his coffers grow over the year, up £277m, taking him to 51st on the rich list.
The UK now has a record number of billionaires with 177, according to the new Sunday Times Rich List.
That’s up six from 2021 – and the combined wealth of the UK’s billionaires stands at £653 billion, up more than £55 billion (9.4%) on the total wealth of the billionaires in last year’s Rich List.
Overall, the richest 250 people in the UK this year are worth £710.7 billion, compared to £658 billion in 2021, an 8% rise on last year.
Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty made the list for the first time, as their joint £730 million fortune put them at number 222.
It comes after the chancellor and his wife’s finances have come under intense scrutiny in recent months.
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